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What does "the OS on a separate thread" mean? I'm also not aware of any consumer chips running 5 GHz in 2002
by sidewndr46 2y ago
What does "the OS on a separate thread" mean? I'm also not aware of any consumer chips running 5 GHz in 2002
- klodolph 2y agoWhen the parent comment says “OS on a separate thread”, they’re talking about the fact that even if your user-space workload is single-threaded, the OS has a separate set of threads, which can run on separate cores from the user thread. The P4 was famously overclocked to 5 GHz in 2003.
- sidewndr46 2y agoOverclocked CPUs aren't really relevant to what is actually available for use.
- bee_rider 2y agoWell, in any case, we’re only going to quibble our way down to an 500x-800x speedup, right? It was still a pretty crazy era to live through.